1962

That Man, Jomo Kenyatta

That Man, Jomo Kenyatta

That Man, Jomo Kenyatta

That Man, Jomo Kenyatta

That Man, Jomo Kenyatta

December 23, 1962
December 23, 1962
Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan)
That Man, Jomo Kenyatta
The words came cold and clipped from the government secretary with gray hair and pale English skin. "When that man enters a room," she said, "I can feel the hackles rise up and down my back. Even if I don't see him, I can feel that man." That man is Jomo Kenyatta. A court has convicted him of managing the savage Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. A British governor has condemned him as "the African leader to darkness and death." Yet, within a year or two, when the colony of Kenya assumes independence, Jomo Kenyatta likely will be the new nation's first prime minister. The gray-haired Englishwoman and other white settlers watch this onrush to power helplessly, with distaste and bitterness. To them, a man streaked in evil and blood is reaching for their rolling, green land. But whites number no more than one per cent of Kenya's six million people. Africans see a different Kenyatta...